11-27-2008, 10:40 PM
District 60 to decide charter proposal Dec. 2
November 27, 2008
By RYAN PAGELOW <!-- e --><a href="mailto:rpagelow@scn1.com">rpagelow@scn1.com</a><!-- e -->
The fate of a proposed charter public high school in Waukegan will be decided during a special meeting of the Waukegan School Board on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. in the Trapp Auditorium at Waukegan High School.
The school board will meet in closed session at 5 p.m. to consider evidence and testimony presented at the Nov. 18 public hearing on the charter school proposal. The administration will then make its recommendation to the board to support or deny the charter school proposed by the Chicago International Charter School during open session at 7 p.m.
The proposed Waukegan College Prep Academy would open as early as next fall with 150 freshmen in classrooms at Shiloh Baptist Church, located at 800 S. Genesee St.
Each year another 150 freshmen would be added until the school reached capacity of 600 students at a more permanent site in Waukegan.
If District 60 denies the charter, the Illinois State Board of Education could overrule, and the state would be the charter provider, as is the case with Prairie Crossing Charter School in Grayslake.
November 27, 2008
By RYAN PAGELOW <!-- e --><a href="mailto:rpagelow@scn1.com">rpagelow@scn1.com</a><!-- e -->
The fate of a proposed charter public high school in Waukegan will be decided during a special meeting of the Waukegan School Board on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. in the Trapp Auditorium at Waukegan High School.
The school board will meet in closed session at 5 p.m. to consider evidence and testimony presented at the Nov. 18 public hearing on the charter school proposal. The administration will then make its recommendation to the board to support or deny the charter school proposed by the Chicago International Charter School during open session at 7 p.m.
The proposed Waukegan College Prep Academy would open as early as next fall with 150 freshmen in classrooms at Shiloh Baptist Church, located at 800 S. Genesee St.
Each year another 150 freshmen would be added until the school reached capacity of 600 students at a more permanent site in Waukegan.
If District 60 denies the charter, the Illinois State Board of Education could overrule, and the state would be the charter provider, as is the case with Prairie Crossing Charter School in Grayslake.